Round 3262 ULPIC defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

I've got a rather miserable total of only 8 defs for ULPIC.  Because of my schedule over the next few days, I'm going ahead with voting anyway, so your chances of hitting the real def are somewhat better than usual. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        20:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 30th June
        21:00 BST in London
        22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         4:00 PM EDT in New York  
         1:00 PM PDT in California
        08:00 NZST on Friday in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

*** ULPIC ***

 1.  a kind of leek.

 2.  aioli: garlic cream paste.

 3.  the hard bony pincers of biting insects and crustaceans. 

 4.  of or pertaining to the mesopalagic ("twilight") zone of the ocean.

 5.  an imaginary large four-legged beast with legs on one side longer than on the other for walking on hillsides

 6.  of, relating to, or being an ancient Egyptian vase, urn, or jar used to hold the viscera of an embalmed body.

 7.  of or relating to the ulpus, a toothlike projection from the second vertebra on which the first vertebra pivots.

 8.  a tax levied by the state on mistresses kept by clergymen; imposed in England and France from 1042 as part of a drive towards clerical celibacy.

 9.  an Icelandic dish comprising the meat of a Greenland shark that has been allowed to ferment (traditionally by burial in sand for up to twelve weeks) then hung to dry for several months.

[Chowie]

6 and 9??

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with the unlikely 5 and 8.

[John Barrs]

I'll go with first and last - just because!

JohnnyB

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[Judy Madnick]

1 and 9 today.

 

Judy Madnick

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Original Message

From: "Tim Lodge" <d...@timlodge.co.uk>

To: dixo...@googlegroups.com;

Date: 6/29/2022 5:38:22 AM

Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3262 ULPIC defs - Vote Now!

I've got a rather miserable total of only 8 defs for ULPIC.  Because of my schedule over the next few days, I'm going ahead with voting anyway, so your chances of hitting the real def are somewhat better than usual. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        20:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 30th June
        21:00 BST in London
        22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         4:00 PM EDT in New York  
         1:00 PM PDT in California
        08:00 NZST on Friday in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

*** ULPIC ***

 1.  a kind of leek.

 2.  aioli: garlic cream paste.

 3.  the hard bony pincers of biting insects and crustaceans. 

 4.  of or pertaining to the mesopalagic ("twilight") zone of the ocean.

 5.  an imaginary large four-legged beast with legs on one side longer than on the other for walking on hillsides

 7.  of or relating to the ulpus, a toothlike projection from the second vertebra on which the first vertebra pivots.

 8.  a tax levied by the state on mistresses kept by clergymen; imposed in England and France from 1042 as part of a drive towards clerical celibacy.

 9.  an Icelandic dish comprising the meat of a Greenland shark that has been allowed to ferment (traditionally by burial in sand for up to twelve weeks) then hung to dry for several months.

[Fein, Deborah]

7 and 9, both wonderful.

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Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
debora...@uconn.edu

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[Paul Keating]

I don't believe that an ulpic is related to the haggis, so I'll go for 1 and 9.

P 

[Tim B]

4 and 9, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Tony Abell]

I'll toss my votes at 1 and 9:

> 1. a kind of leek.

[Shani Naylor]

I'll go against the crowd and vote for 7, and 8 (because I wonder if it's true).

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[Efrem Mallach]

1 and 9 are clear vox pop, but I don't believe 9 because it sounds too much like the recipe for Norwegian gravlax. #5, as someone obliquely pointed out earlier, is a haggis as sold to any number of tourists in Scotland as a joke souvenir. (I'll be among that breed in mid-August, and hope to eat haggis at least once, but I won't get one of the little pottery beasts.) I also don't imagine that England and France would have collaborated on taxation before the Norman invasion. And I used to know the word for that Egyptian jar, probably from reading too many "Elizabeth Peters" Peabody/Emerson books, and I don't think it was this. Another gets eliminated because of what I think is a misspelling, though I could be wrong on that. It could be 1, though it probably isn't, so I'll vote 1 and 2.

Efrem

[Daniel B Widdis]

8 and 9

 

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